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An examination of investment strategies and plant-location decisions of foreign corporations in the US. The author examines managerial aspects of the plant-location decision-making process, describes specific location factors and points out recent trends in foreign investment in the US.

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Specifically, it uses changes in relative state burdens as a measure of state fiscal policy and shows that by altering the incentives to work, save and invest, changes in a state's tax burden relative to other states influence decisions on whether, how much and where to invest.

The book is divided into three parts.

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A presentation of the cost-of-capital approach for analyzing the economic impact of tax policy.

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This work concerns management's ability to anticipate how investors will respond to the investing, financing, and operating decisions they make as they manage their business.

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Shows that investment professionals cannot make good portfolio choices unless they understand the determinants of asset prices. The author sets out an approach to asset pricing in a nonmathematical form that can be comprehensible to a broad range of investment professionals, including investment advisors, money managers, and financial analysts.

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Ecology represents a true megatrend of increasing strengtha megatrend that impacts new products and production methods, new markets and marketing, new legislation, and new business ethics and business structures.

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Finally, the author explores the economic consequences for the general economy of significant underground economic activity--for example: tax evasion, economic efficiency, and cyclical aspects.

This work will be of interest to scholars, students, and policy-makers in economics, economic policy, political science, and criminology.

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A rewritten and enlarged version of the author's thesis, this study is concerned with Iraq's people--their social characteristics, population structure, and potentialities for population growth;

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This biographical study analyzes the careers and thinking of a dozen union leaders of Irish descent who contributed to the union movement.

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This study explains how businessmen in the German iron and steel industry managed their enterprises, dealt with their customers, and acted in their relations with state and society during a period of war, revolution, and economic crisis. Because this industry occupied a central position in Germany during the inflation, the author's investigation il

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This volume provides an analysis of the economic decision making process within the US establishment and includes five highly publicized case studies from recent years. The book also explains how different economic policymaking is from the political decisionmaking process.

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This volume provides an analysis of the economic decision making process within the US establishment and includes five highly publicized case studies from recent years. The book also explains how different economic policymaking is from the political decisionmaking process.

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Have you ever thought Brazil was a country afraid of becoming more international Written by a Brazilian expert in foreign affairs, this book describes Brazilian position in the international scenario and presents an authentic and provocative point of view on the Brazilian international relations

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Governance, Development and Growth critically evaluates conventional ideas about governance and development , highlighting that while good governance is a worthy goal by itself, it is not a prerequisite for economic growth or development as the donor community commonly believes.

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Deregulation has been at the top of Japan's economic policy agenda for many years. Now, in the midst of a financial crisis that engulfs all of Asia, pressures on the Japanese government for substantial reform--coming from both inside and outside forces--are stronger than ever.

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This volume brings together all the major contributions to the recent decade-long controversy over Karl Marxs theory that exploitation of workers is the exclusive source of capitalists profits. The debate explores different modern interpretations success in confirming Marxs conclusion.

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This volume brings together all the major contributions to the recent decade-long controversy over Karl Marxs theory that exploitation of workers is the exclusive source of capitalists profits. The debate explores different modern interpretations success in confirming Marxs conclusion.

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In the core original study, which draws upon twelve cases - including Somalia, Lebanon, Panama, Grenada, and the Gulf War - Richard Haass suggests political and military guidelines for potential US military interventions ranging from peacekeeping and humanitarian operations to preventive strikes and all-out warfare.

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Is a tax amnesty a good tax policy To address this question, this book examines whether a typical state tax amnesty is likely to generate substantial short term tax revenues without a corresponding significant negative effect on long run tax compliance.

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The doctrine of 'Islamic economics' entered debates over the social role of Islam in the mid-twentieth century. Since then it has pursued the goal of restructuring economies according to perceived Islamic teachings. This book argues that the doctrine of Islamic economics is simplistic, incoherent, and largely irrelevant to economic challenges.